Gurney Hydro Toastmasters Club

New blogsite @ gurneyhydrotmc.blogspot.com

2009-06-24T00:26:00.000-07:00

We have moved!!!

The new address is at:

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New Members Induction Ceremony cum Hydro Hotel Visit

2009-04-17T01:41:00.000-07:00

Date : 5th April 2009
Venue : Hydro Hotel, Batu Feringghi, Penang

Members of Gurney Toastmasters enjoyed the best of Hydro Hotel's Buffet Sunday Hi-Tea, especially the pudding! ehem..and we meant it!

It is a 'ritual' for a new member to be inducted into the family of any Toastmasters Club. Normally, induction is held on a yearly basis during Joint Installation Banquet dinner but we do have our own induction at the club level. This time round, our induction coincides with the F1 Sepang Race 2009 and we were so spoilt to be inducted at Hydro Hotel by the poolside.

Three new members, one 'used-to-be' member and five Gurney Toastmasters members gathered for a Sunday Buffet Hi-Tea with a plan, not to take over Hydro Hotel but to spread the goodness of Toastmasters in the hotel itself! Nothing was hard to do as the General Manager himself was inducted that day.

Programme of the day :

2.30pm START : Hi Tea @ Coffee House next to Poolside.

Wonderful environment and lots of varieties of food. Everyone was happy and relaxed catching up and getting to know one another more.

4:00pm Hotel Tour to the Meeting Room, Business Centre, Rudi's Office, Lounge etc.

4:30pm Meeting started by Ai Li, TOE.
IPP, Sam Koay gave a welcoming speech
Word of the day by Rudi

- "AUF WIERSERSEHN!" (German : until we meet again)

Humour session by Sam & Muthu.
Assignment speech by Soo Huey

- "What have you missed today?"

5.00 pm Table topic session with 8 participants
Speech evaluation for prepared speech my Yap Heng Weng
Table topic evaluation by Muthukumaran.

he, he commented that he never had evaluated 8 table topics before in his entire history with Toastmasters! Everyone had fun and was actively participating :)

Induction Ceremony by Cheah Ee Liang (Area S3 Governor)

- Announcement of new members with Mentor
Chan - Dylan (Mentor)
Rudi - Ai Li (Mentor)
Weng Keong - Sam (Mentor)
Kyle - Joanne (Mentor)
5:45pm Meeting ended. Closing speech by Dylan.

It was indeed a great induction ceremony for the new members and a great gathering for all!

WH Yap (Renesas Toastmasters Club) , Soo Huey (Achievers Toastmasters Club) and Ai Li

Kyle Lee (new member), Lynda and WK Wan (new member)

Jyh Woei (new member) and Sam

We had a few comments from the guest who joined us in the gathering and as usual,

"Gurney Toastmasters Club is ALWAYS THE MOST HAPPENING CLUB ~ EVER!"

* We wish to thank Muthukumaran (Penang Advanced Toastmasters Club), WH Yap (Renesas Toastmasters Club), Penny Ooi (Maverick Toastmasters Club), June Lim (YMCA Toastmasters Club) and Cheah Ee Liang (Area S3 Governor + Renesas Toastmasters Club) for making the event more successful!

Division S International Speech and Table Topic Contest 2009

2009-04-03T01:46:00.000-07:00

After several undefeated challenges from Club contest to Area then it is the time for Division Contest!

Every contestant in this contest is already winners! Some won the mind of the judges, some won the hearts of their admirers, some won the attention of the girls and others that were present, took home something priceless - the experience!

Division S International Speech and Table Topic Contest 2009 was held in Penang Adventist Hospital's Nursing College Hall. And mind you, it was so packed that the hospital might even consider to extend the hall!! :)

Both contest was participated by Champions of each Area, in total 7 Areas in Division S. That means, each contestants will need to face their competitors from 7 different background and experiences!

Gurney Toastmasters Club was representated by the President, Joanne Tan, who won the Area S3 Table Topic Contest and was the 1st Runner Up for the International Speech Contest. She represented the Area S3 to compete in the Table Topic contest, and mind you! It was a real tough topic!

"A Word A Day, You Will Learn A Whole Dictionary Someday" Do you agree on the idea, and why?

Stood tall with nothing but butterflies and words...flabbergasted with the topic, she carried on by saying that Toastmasters programme is already a dictionary itself! With every meeting's "Word Of The Day", it sure has helped her through many speechless moments. And eventhough a dictionary is worth a great study, but a teacher would worth more than what she needs. And she quoted her friend from US, Mr Solomon Olin, a tourist who was a great teacher to her throughout his 2 months, as he stayed in Penang, he taught her the meaning of being a human and how to be successful in mind, body and soul. Her last sentence was "It is never easy to learn a dictionary, but it was never easy to learn to be a meaningful human being. Thanks to the dictionary for the words and meanings, but thanks to people we meet for their guidance and great moments shared, priceless!"

Our Winner, the Division S' 1st Runner Up in Division S Table Topic Contest 2009.

Ushering the 'Chai' to Gurney Toastmasters!

2009-04-01T17:48:00.000-07:00

With everyone all ready to usher in the year of Ox this Chinese New Year, Gurney Toastmasters are still in the mood of having their speech done and a traditional reunion with everyone in the 'family'.

We have been practising our tradition of having a reunion dinner together, if not, a reunion for all the members, past and present.

This year, with no exceptional reasons, "yee shang" was the main attraction! Supporting Gurney Hotel in their quest for charity, we purchase the "yee shang" for a great celebration after the meeting.

Wikipedia.com :

Yusheng , yee sang or yuu sahng (simplified Chinese: 鱼生; pinyin: yúshēng) is a Chaozhou-style raw fish salad. It usually consists of strips of raw fish (most commonly salmon), mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments, among other ingredients. Yusheng literally means "raw fish" but since "fish (鱼)" is commonly conflated with its homophone "abundance (余)", Yúshēng (鱼生) is interpreted as a homophone for Yúshēng (余升) meaning an increase in abundance. Therefore, yusheng is considered a symbol of abundance, prosperity and vigor.

At the same time, we have 2 new members that decided to join our Gurney Toastmasters family. What a great celebration indeed!

New members profile :

Kyle Lee

Profession : Engineer
Reason of joining Toastmasters : To learn and improve communication skills

Chan Jyh Woei

Profession : Senior Account Officer

Reason of joining Toastmasters : To improve communication skills and brush up on his leadership skills too

* More about members feature up next , stay tune!!

GurneyTMC Caring Project

2009-01-24T01:35:00.000-08:00

To many, Chinese New Year celebration is about having a great family dinner together in our cozy dining room with lots of fish, chicken, meat, vegetables and of course, great drinks!

To some, it's that time of the year where holiday begins with $$ and this is especially meaningfull for kids who love the feeling of 'ang pow' filling up their pockets and bags.

To children at the Children Protection Society, it's a whole different story.

With a little thought of sharing and a little effort to keep the spirit of giving and sharing a great Chinese New Year, Gurney Toastmasters Club members initiated a visit to the Children Protection Society (CPS). The centre, located at Scotland Road, Penang, is a shelter for children who were abused, tortured and even abandoned by their parents, and loved ones.

With approximately 30 children under the care of 2 house mother, the centre provide shelter, food and studies for the children aged between 5 till 18 years old. These children are from all over Penang and are from different races, but living together means a lot to them as support for each other are very strong can easily be found here, at the Children Protection Society. Don't be surprised when you meet some of very intelligent and active children there!!

We were there last night from 8pm till 10.30pm, to offer our help in terms of entertaining and guiding the children towards a better education journey. We separated the children into 2 groups, the primary school and secondary schools.

Sam, Ai Li and Benjamin Liaw (PAH Toastmasters Club) took the lead in providing education and motivation talk to the secondary school children while Joanne, Dylan, Wooi Fun (Intel Toastmasters Club) and Denise (Intel Toastmasters Club) brought some joy with games to the kids of those in primary school. We were glad that Mable, our long-missed member showed up with some dictionaries and even Mr Khoo and wife (Penang MCA Toastmasters Club) came with balloons sculptures to captures the heart of everyone there!

Thanks a million to everyone who offered their heart and hands to help cheer the children at CPS last night, 23rd January 2009. With this, i attached the pictures for your viewing pleasures and of course, with hope that you, would offer your love to those in need, especially during festive seasons like this.

* Gurney Toastmasters Club would like to extend our deepest appreciation to everyone that sent who send their love and support for this project by sponsoring money and food for the orphans.

To all the staffs at UMW, thank you for sponsoring in kind of purchase of dictionaries, reference books, motivational books and chess games.

To Joan Chan (Penang YMCA Toastmasters Club), thank you for your monetary support and advise for the project.

To KK Chee(Butterworth & Penang Advanced Toastmasters Club), Past District 51 Governor, thank you for your kindness in communicating with Tan Mark Bookstore which leads to the sponsoring of books and very useful workbooks for the children.

To Tan Mark Bookstore Manager, thank you for your kindness and support towards the project.

To Mr Soon from Thye Sun Hup, thank you for sponsoring MILO drinks, water tumbler and exercise books for the children.

And here are the pictures!!

Sam giving motivational talk to the children in the secondary school.

Looking like a teacher, Sam!!

Joanne, Dylan and Wooi Fun helping out Ming in his charade acts.

Joe, one of our favourites, he's a life-wire!!

Q&A Session

Dato' Khoo (Penang MCA Toastmasters Club) with his balloons scultures!!

Some of the slides for the motivational talk by Sam , speech about encouragement, displine, confidence and future..

Joanne, Dylan, Wooi Fun and Denise in the secret talk with the kids..on the deepest darkest secret.

*The most heartache talk is from Joe, he was abused by his uncle - with belt and long stick.

Dylan in his 'too-too train sentence' game..

Check out Chun and Wooi Fun ! Priceless smile!

Chun, 7, a great fan of Nicholas Teo...sang us 'Tong Hua' at the end of the game.

The girls, Meena, Huey Ling, Letchu and Banu in their Tamil song..cute!

Sam and Ai Li helping out and briefing the kids on the books, which will be placed in their 'mini library' created by us.

Some of the books, games and MILO sponsored. Thanks a million to all the sponsors!!

Presentation of the sponsorship...

Ang Pow session!!

Balloon pic with the kids!!

Last but not least, a picture for all!! It is indeed a great memory and a great way to start a new year of the Ox!!

Halloween Toastmasters

2008-11-10T20:59:00.000-08:00

Organized by Farlim and MCA Penang Toastmasters Club, the joint Halloween themed meeting was held on 28th October 2008 at Northern Tower, Penang. The meeting was attended by Joanne, President of Gurney Toastmasters Club, as the 'devil'...

The themed meeting was a well-done job as it has a great arrangement of programme and the atmosphere of all participants make it a success!

Lights were off with a masked skeleton hanging at the white board, with creepy music from famous ghost story, craved pumpkin, funny looking hotdogs and biscuits as well as reddish syrup served as drinks...indeed, interesting meeting.

The table topic was very exciting as it represent Halloween with treat or trick style, members will have to choose their sweets and speak from the title attached to the sweets. And not to forget, Christopher Choong with his noisy sound effect each time an applause...

Christopher and KhooBY with the 'bloody eyeballs' drinks..

President of MCA Penang, Khai Shing.

Huan Chee Giap with his speech on CPU.

Carmen and her speech on the importance of taking care of our ears.

Last but not least, a picture with all the 'ghost' of Halloween!!

From Left : Andy Lim (Farlim Toastmasters Club), Christopher "Hotdog Ghost" (Penang Advanced Toastmasters Club), Joanne Tan "Red Devil" (Gurney Toastmasters Club) and Eleanor Ooi "Black Widow" (Voices Toastmasters Club)

Hari Raya Bersama Gurney Toastmasters Club

2008-11-10T20:43:00.000-08:00

It's a multinational country, and multi-cultural celebration...so, we decided to have out Hari Raya Aidilfitri meeting on the very first day of Hari Raya itself, 1st October 2008.

Gurney Toastmasters Club has always been popular for organizing interesting themed meeting and this great celebration was not an exception eventhough it was the first day of the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration.

The festive celebration meeting was attended by non-malays but the meeting was so much about different culture of Malaysia. The table topic was about the Malay culture and even, the food served was more of Hari Raya kuih-muih than normal cakes and cookies...

Ms President as a nyonya :)

Sue wont the Best Evaluator award while Chris won the Best Table Topic award presented by the president.

Area S Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest

2008-11-10T18:42:00.000-08:00

Gurney Toastmasters Club was represented by the champions of the club in the Area S3 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest, Joanne Tan for her "Are You Man Enough?" humorous speech and James Leong for the Evaluation Contest.

Although Gurney Toastmasters Club was merely a club of 2years old, we have managed to produce great challenger, good competitor and guess what, interesting play of fighting spirit!!

The Area S3 & S7 contest was held at Dell Penang's cafeteria and the turn out was massive to witness the champion to represent the Area for the Division Contest.

Humorous Speech Contest

Joanne Tan : Gurney Toastmasters' Champ, Area S3's 1st Runner-Up...

From Left : Contest Chair, Area S3 Governor, Champion "Super Muthu", 1st Runner-Up Joanne Tan and Organizing Chair...

Evaluation Contest

James Leong : Gurney Toastmasters' 1st Runner-up, Area S3's 1st Runner-Up..

From Left : Area S3 Governor, Champion Christopher Choong, 1st Runner-up James Leong, Contest Chair, Organizing Chair...

Who say Toastmasters don't know how to party??

2008-11-09T23:27:00.000-08:00

It was rainy season, and we actually planned for a poolside party with pirates theme, but then again, better not get ourselves wet, else, everybody else might end up knowing a feverish Toastmaster than a real Toastmasters.

So, members of Gurney Toastmasters Club gathered and planned for a party for everyone, especially to promote the club and to promote the benefit of public speaking and communicating.

"Cowboy Party" was the theme, 6th September 2008 was the date and 50 people was the turn out. Unfortunately, we are only able to share a few pictures as the cameraman was unable to upload the photos taken on that night to the President. The party was held at 1 Persiaran Gurney multipurpose hall and was attended by toastmasters and residents of the apartment.

Anyway, it was a potluck party with Division S Education and Training Director Christopher Choong, was specially invited from speak on the importance of listening and speaking as well as the confidence of public speaking.

*Pictures will be uploaded once received. Apology.

Cameraman, Joseph Chen from Sungai Ara Toastmasters Club.

Sam explaining about Toastmasters to guest.

Hooi Koon and Ying Ying, our long lost friend.

Good luck to Ying Ying on her new journey in career in Kuala Lumpur!!

The 3 musketeers!
Dylan, Kent and Chris as the wired cowboys!

One for all, all for one!!

Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest 2008/09

2008-11-09T22:00:00.000-08:00

Gurney Toastmasters Club and Maverick Toastmasters Club had our joint club Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest 2008 on 27th August 2008.

Each year, there will be 2 important contest for each club to select her champion to represent the club, and hopefully till the World Stage. Contests will be divided into Humourous and Evaluation Contest; and Table Topic and International Speech Contest. While the Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest will be held at the end of the year, which is on the early term of a fiscal year, the Table Topic Contest and International Speech will be held towards the mid of second term.

This year, Gurney Toastmasters Club hold hands in hands with the Maverick Toastmaster Club in organizing the contest. And as usual, the winner will be representing the club for the Area Contest, then to the Division contest and to the District Contest.

Anyway, the amazing part this year was, the organizing team made of Gurney Toastmasters and Maverick Toastmasters only had their meetings online through emails and yet, the event was successfully organized with great entertainment from the participants.

Less word, more pictures...enjoy!!

The Organizing Chairman, Kent Ho, his first time to chair a contest!

The trophies for the contest.

Winner for Gurney Toastmasters Club for the Humorous Speech Contest is Ms President, Joanne Tan for her speech entitled : Are You Man Enough?

Humorous Speech 1st Runner-up, Mr Vice President Education, James Leong

Humorous Speech 2nd Runner-up, Mr Vice President Public Relations, Chris Lee

This year's Evaluation Contest won by Mr Immediate Past President, Sam Koay

Evaluation Contest 1st Runner-up, Chris Lee

Evaluation Contest 2nd Runner-up, James Leong

Last but not least, a pic for all!!

From Left : Gabriel Gim (Humorous Speech and Evaluation Champion of Maverick Toastmasters Club), Eugene Cheah (Gurney TMC), James Leong (Gurney TMC), Chris Lee (Gurney TMC), Sam Koay (Gurney TMC), Penny Ooi (Maverick TMC), Joanne Tan (Gurney TMC), Kent Ho (Organizing Chair). [back] Dylan Yeoh (Humorous Speech Contest Chair), Lynx Choong (Gurney TMC) and Area S3 Governor Cheah Ee Liang.

Joint Installation Dinner 2008

2008-09-16T02:48:00.000-07:00

Joint Installation Dinner was held on 2nd August 2008, the event was the most memorable for many as it marks the starting of teh new term for 2008/09 EXCO of both Division S and Division N in District 51.

Attended by more than 360 members all over Penang, it was a recognition of those who've been putting their best effort for the betterment of Toastmasters movement in both the divisions. The Joint Installation Dinner was held to introduce the new EXCO for the new term as well as to recognize the effort of many throughout the year. This annual event was held at Gurney Hotel, Penang this year and it was indeed a great hardwork payoff for the committee members as this time around mark the most attendance so far.

Gurney Toastmasters Club was also recognized as yours truly, Joanne Tan was recognized as the Toastmasters of the year 2007/08 and the Area S3 Toastmasters of The Year 2007/08.

Enjoy the pictures!

Gurney Toastmasters Club EXCO for the year 2008/09. Where is James, my VP Education??

Gurney Toastmasters Club President 2007/08 Sam Koay and President 2008/09, Joanne Tan.

What's a dinner without food? Sam and Chris proves it all..the importance of food! hehe..

The luckiest man, Chris is the only person who got the lucky draw. A toaster, to prove he's now, a true toastmasters...

The men in the club, Kent, Eugene, Sam, Lynx ans Chris.

Benedict Tan, Sergeant At Arms of Gurney Toastmasters Club.

Dylan Yeoh, Honorary Treasurer of Gurney Toastmasters Club 2008/09

Eugene Cheah, Honorary Secretary of the club.

Chris Lee, Vice President of Public Relations 2008/09

Lynx Chong (with spectacles), Vice President Membership 2008/09

The President, taking oath to serve the club to the best of ability. Yup, to the best of ability!

Oath from all the Presidents of clubs in Division S and Division N for the year of 2008/09

Promise of all the Toastmasters in attendance to assist and bring the best of Toastmasters to the club and to the public!

Toastmasters of the Year for 2007/08 - Club Level

Toastmasters of the Year for Area S3 2007/08

Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) Training 2008

2008-09-05T01:21:00.000-07:00

It was merely a week before taking over the Club EXCO role for the fiscal year of July 2008 ~ June 2009, Toastmasters from around the Division N & S of District 51 were invited to a TLI Training in Dell Penang on 29 June 2008.

The training is to provide enough education and platform for future EXCO members of the clubs to learn about their role and responsibilities in managing the club. Each club EXCO will be given an educational training to prepare themselves to serve the club for the year.

Each role of President, Vice President - Membership, Education, Public Relations, Treasurer, Secretary and Sergeant-At-Arms were given trainings and explanation on how to manage the club's welfare and the club's meeting, especially.

EXCO members for Gurney Toastmasters 2008/2009

President Joanne Tan

Vice President Education James Leong

Vice President Membership Lynx Chong

Vice President Public Relations Chris Lee

Treasurer Dylan Yeoh

Secretary Eugene Cheah

Sergeant-At-Arms Benedict Tan

Please take note that starting from September 2008, Gurney Toastmasters Club meeting will be held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Should you need more information, please do not hesitate to email joanne_tij@yahoo.co.uk (President Joanne Tan) or jamesleongek@yahoo.com (Vice President Education).

June Babies

2008-09-03T01:19:00.000-07:00

Kent and Chris celebrated their birthday on June 25, 2008.

Well, am not going to reveal their age, but yes, they're both SAA (Single And Available)..

Here goes some pictures for the record!

The birthday boys..

The candle blowing ceremony..

The meeting of 25th June 2008.

Rhythm of Life, 1st Runner-up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the World Championship of Public Speaking 2008

2008-09-02T02:29:00.000-07:00

It was indeed a great news for District 51 as a champion is born!!

Copied from an email from Richard Chong @ Ritchie ACS / ALB, Lt.Gov Education & Training 2008/2009 on August 17, 2008.

--- August 16th 2008 ~ 4pm Calgary, Alberta, Canadian Time & Date

District 51 2008/2009 - "The Courage to Conquer"

Dear Esteemed Division Governors & Area Governors,

District 51 shall now be fill with pride and joy after the results of the 2008 World Championship of Public Speaking.

The winning speech of K.Loghandran entitled "Rhythm of Life" has indeed find its way to the audience of approximately 1,ry600 people as well as to the judges hearts.

LOGANDRAN KRISHNASAMY was announced as the 1st runner-up of the 2008 WCPS. His speech revolved around the theme that asked us
to find the rhythm in our life, to live life to the fullest and to dance to the rhythm of our life!

We are now very proud to finally not only having a finalist in the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking but a proud winner in itself. Congratulations to Loghandran and District 51.

For Pictures & to send congratulatory messages ,please visit http://ritchierc.blogspot.com/

Division S International Speech Contest 2007/08

2008-09-02T01:49:00.000-07:00

I know it's a bit too late, but at least i wanted to post this up for others to know who the champion was for Gurney Toastmasters Club.

James Leong (4th from the left) was the winner for Gurney Toastmasters Club and represented the club in a journey of excitement in the International Speech Contest. James went all the way to the Area Contest and last to the Division Contest where he presented his speech on his adventure in roller blading.

With the title of "Never Too Old", he gave a very strong moral to all toastmasters that learning should never be old when he shared his roller blading adventure. James took up his roller blading class last year's September and fell and got up and fell and got up until he is now, a pro roller blader..and yes, he's an pensioner from Singapore Air Force, an over 60 year-old grandpa of 2 grandchildren.

James didn't make it in the Division Contest where the International Speech winners from 3 Division in District 51 battled it out in the District 51 Annual Convention 2008 in April 18-20, 2008 in Gurney Hotel, Penang. But his speech sure does spark some eyes, especially for many who hold their hands together throughout James' speech while he was on his roller blade, on the stage!!

Anyway, great speech, James!!

Hope to see you be at your best again this year, and of course, with your determination, nothing will be impossible!

15th Annual District 51 Convention : PG2008

2008-06-23T21:55:00.000-07:00

This year, the annual convention was much awaited by many Toastmasters from all over District 51, covering Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia ; but most importantly, by Penangites.

The organizing committee consist of merely less than 30 people, the convention marked as one of the largest delegation yet to the annual event. Driving and flying from all over the places, probably just to see the International President Chris Ford, DTM himself, many Toastmasters were too eager to even to think about where to go in the beautiful island of Penang!!

Held from 18th - 20th April 2008, Gurney Hotel was made the official hotel for the event. Therefore, it shouldn't be a left-out for any Gurney Toastmasters to join in the event!! Even, yours truly took part as the organizing committee to learn more about the event. What more can compare to James Leong's experience to stand in front of hundreds of Toastmasters in his quest to conquer the title of International Speech Champion.

It was an experience worth to note. James didn't take away the prize but he got a much greater prize, an experience to share and a note to learn for his future battles. And as for many other Gurney Toastmasters who participated in the convention, there's too much to share such as the trainings and the keynote addresses by speakers such as the International President himself.

Well, here's some pics to enjoy!!

Welcome Nite to welcome every delegates!!

Even the International President is enjoying himself~!!

District Governor, KK Chee and Organizing Chair, Shankar is indeed having a lot of fun, dancing with Nazri from Reneses Toastmasters Club.

Bali Convention promotion during the Welcome Nite.

"Bikinigirl" Joanne and "Spongebob" Micheal is the emcees for the Welcome Nite a.k.a Beach Party!!

It's pretty hard to get the Charlie's Angel to have a reunion since Ai Li (mid) is in KL now, and Eleanor (white top) is so busy with work..only yours truly is the free and easy girl in the island. :(

The 'highlight' of the night was our invited guest, professional Belly dancer, Joo Nee to grace the dance show..

She even managed to get all the 'big shot' on stage for a good dance!!

International President Chris Ford and Joanne Tan, Vice President Education 2007/08.

Sam gave Hooi Koon her "Gold Eagle pin' to mark her finishing her Competent Communicator manual.

CONGRATULATIONS HOOI KOON!!

James (2nd from left) on stage, receiving his recognition for participating in the International Speech Contest.

Even Toastmasters are good belly-dancers!! This is the dance performance by Toastmasters of IPG, INTEL, DELL, Sg.Ara and Farlim Toastmasters Club.

Pictures together!!

Gurney Toastmasters and Penang Adventist Hospital Toastmasters, the brothers and sisters of the same age Toastmasters Club (means, the club was established at the same time)!!

Gurney Toastmasters with Toastmaster Sue Chan (blue dress) from Penang Advanced and Toastmaster Joan Chan from YMCA Penang (marroon dress).

Dawn, Joanne, Melissa and Ai Li.

And the greatest pleasure of all throughout the Convention was to have a picture with the International President, Chris Ford, DTM. What a great experience!!

Gurney Toastmasters with International President, Chris Ford, DTM.

Welcome aboard!!

2008-06-23T21:09:00.000-07:00

It was just 2 meetings and these two new members decided to join the big happy family of Gurney Toastmasters Club, the Most Happening Club!!

Introducing, Rudi Walter Herrmann and Derek Lee Thean Sung. Registered themselves as our new members in April 2008 and finally approved and accepted in May 2008.

Born in German but fell in love with Malaysia, Rudi finally gave up his business in his countryland and decided to stay in Penang with his wife and 3children. He owned D'Feringghi Hotel and runs it professionally for almost a year now. Learned about Gurney Toastmasters Club online, through the blog and came for a visit, only to find out that Toastmasters is an organization for him to learn more about communication and public speaking. Now, a new member but a very supportive picture in the house!!

Derek Lee is a professional teacher, currently teaching English for Form 6 students. Was in Toastmasters Club many years ago, and in fact, was a member of Penang MCA Toastmasters Club almost 10years ago. Now, he's back on track of Toastmasters and is ever-ready to blend to the top with his new found love and passion of public speaking in the Most Happening Club!

Cheers for them!!

From left : Dylan (Vice President Membership), Rudi Herrmann, Sam (President), Derek Lee, Joanne (Vice President Education)

Gurney & MIA Toastmasters International Speech Contest and Table Topic Contest

2008-02-28T20:22:00.000-08:00

Every fiscal year, Toastmasters Clubs around the world will be having their own club contest, namely Humurous Speech Contest, Evaluation Contest, Table Topic Contest and International Speech Contest.

Like last year, Gurney Toastmasters Club and MIA Toastmasters Club jointly organized our very own International Speech Contest and Table Topic Contest on 30th January 2008 in Gurney Hotel, Penang.

The contest feature some of very seasonal speakers and some very new speakers battling out to be their club's Champion and compete in the area contest. But it was not easy, seeing everyone every-ready and eagerly awaiting their name to be called, some of the members were anxiously practising their speeches while other were just enjoying their butterflies....

Gurney Toastmasters, had the competition and we're proud to announce that our ex-pilot is the winner for International Speech Contest, while yours truly, the Table Topic Contest champion. Both of us will be competiting against other champions of Area S in the area contest and the winner will then represent the area to the District, which will be happening in the coming District 51 Annual Convention or known as Penang Convention 2008.

Wishing the winners all the best, and here goes the pictures that painted the night out for memories~

James and his roller-skate, winnings on his speech entitled "He who think is able, is able".

The winners, James (1st) and Joanne (2nd), accompanied by Area S3 Governor Jessica Chan and Organizing Chair Toastmaster Lynx Chong for the International Speech Contest.

Winners of Table Topic Contest, 2nd Chris (in blue), 1st Joanne (in red) and 3rd James (in grey) together with Area N6 Governor SHLim and Organizing Chair Toastmaster Eleanor Ooi.

MIA Toastmasters Club International Speech Contest winner 1st Yeoh Pit Shing (in blue) and 1st runner up with Jessica and Lynx.

MIA Toastmasters Club Table Topic Contest winner with SHLim and Eleanor, Winner Pit Shing and 2nd place Andrew.

To the winners,

GOOD LUCK FROM ALL OF US AT GURNEY TOASTMASTERS CLUB AND MIA TOASTMASTERS CLUB!!

Reunion Dinner

2008-02-28T19:40:00.000-08:00

While everyone else were busy preparing for their Chinese New Year spring cleaning and last minute shopping, we decided to have our own Gurney Toastmasters Club Reunion Dinner. It's a very important dinner as it represent togetherness..haha..well, it's not entirely 'togetherness' as it's a Sunday, so, we don't really expect all the members to flood the Berjaya Georgetown Hotels' Restaurant.

Anyway, we managed to get a few members and as usual, the chit chatting starts in no time eventhough there's a non-member around. Anyhow, she's kind enough to join in the crazy fun and happening thoughts we all crash into during the dinner.

A little recap..

1. The ONLY reason we choose Berjaya Georgetown for the Reunion Dinner is because of the free flow of Haagen Dazs ice-cream

(face it, President, it's your idea to get all of us hooked up!!)

2. The lamb chop was sssssssssssssssooooooooooo fine....Lincoln had 3-rounds of that!

3. Eventhough it's a Gurney Toastmasters Club dinner, Ahmad is kind enough to let us all see his other half, Gee.

(hi~~!!)

4. The ever-chirpy-big-heart Chris is so entertaining till all of us can't fill our stomach with food but with air due to the laughters...

(It's all your fault i haven't got enough of what i pay for, Chris!)

5. If i know earlier, i would've wore my cheongsam to get the President's Best Dress Award.. :(

Anyway, congratulations to Ai Li and Lynx for the prize...can share ?

6. It's an unlucky day for Lincoln to sit next to me, because most of the time, he's either nab by fork or tickled by the spoon..hahahha...

7. Knowing that there's another 2 pretty ladies sitting near him, Lincoln decided that every photo taken should 'have' him in it... so typical... :P

8. President and his smile is every so enchanting.. (no wonder there's only a few girls in the club!)

Ok, since it's 2008 and 8 represent a good number, let's all just put in the 8 recaps...hehehe..

GONG XI FA CHAI!!

A New Resolution!

2008-01-15T20:21:00.000-08:00

The first meeting of the year marked a great gathering and sharing session amongst members and guests of Gurney Toastmasters Club.

The meeting was held on 9th Jan and what interesting was, everyone was given a yellow card to write their new year resolutions. The card will then, be kept by everyone and as promised, a 'review' will be done at the end of the year, this December 2008.

The assignment speech session was well-done and everyone learned something from every speakers!

We learned that Eugene, our 2weeks-old member who presented his Icebreaker speech, is a person who love basketball and his new year resolution is to reduce another 10kg!!

(Now, can anyone tell him that I'm far visibly fatter than him~!! aaaaaaaaaaaaa~~)

Hooi Koon presented a research speech on "Fruits". And all of us learned that eating fruits after meal is not advisable as the nutrient will disappear faster than having food half hour before meal. Besides, drinking fruit juice is best replace mineral water as it provides vitamins to the body....oooooo......

Voilet presented her advanced speech on "A Role Model For Toastmaster". And the whole speech was impressive that our President Sam was so flattered having mentioned that an 'award' is given to recognize his commitment towards Toastmasters. (ehem ehem..)

And yours truly, presented a speech that even the men are pretty much interested, breast cancer movement, with the title "Wear It Pink". I even managed to get Lynx to assist me in breast cancer checking procedures. All members are given a pink ribbon, and i'm so glad, everyone learned about the important issue and are more serious into that threat now......

Besides the great assignment speeches, the table topic presented by Toastmaster Ying Ying was so much fun! Topics vary from new year resolutions to current issue involving the latest 'big shot affair' on the news. Members and guests were all participating with so much enthusiasm and indeed, the topics are something that everyone enjoyed the most!

Thanks to our guests, Angie, Irene, Yin Yin and Eleanor for joining us for the meeting...ehem..u gals should not forgot about the resolution too ya~!!

Before everyone is allowed leave the meeting, we need to read out our 2008 Resolution written on the yellow card. Here's the list of 2008 Resolutions;

Sam ~ to join and challange a triathlon event.

Angie ~ earn enough to buy a new car

Violet ~ to be a PR lecturer

Eleanor ~ to start her own business

Yin Yin ~ to get her 1st patient for her dental business

Eugene ~ to reduce another 10kg

Joanne ~ to reduce to 50kg

Kent ~ to earn more $$ in business

Irene ~ to let her passion leads her life

BEnedict ~ to maintain education goals and achievement

HooiKoon ~ to go to Turkey

Ying Ying ~ to start piano class for kids

Lynx ~ to stop smoking

Cindy ~ to bring her whole family and in-laws for a tour

and as a gentle reminder,

"Resolve to perform what you ought, and perform without fail what you resolve"

~ Benjamin Franklin

Christmas Cheers!

2008-01-02T02:12:00.000-08:00

It was a day after Christmas and the spirit of yuletide still fill the air with of course, non other than presents presents and presents...wooohooo~

We had our Christmas Cheers themed meeting last week and what more can i say, i'm so touched! Everyone was there and once again, we're as HAPPENING as always~!!

Every members and guests are informed to bring along a present to exchange and everyone are encourage to wear their Santa hat, well, this was not successful though..many seems to forget their hats at home, while our President, Sam, happily announced that he 'borrow' his son's Santa hat..hahahaha...

The meeting was filled with potluck once again, and we had the best Satay in town, the best Fried Noodle (mamak style), the best fruits, the best cream puffs, the best cakes and most of all, the best music to fill the whole room. All thanks to all the members who put their effort and their love into the club, making it such amazing and fun!

Oh ya, before i forgot, we even have guest all the way from Saudi Arabia! He's non other than Ahmed Al-Ottaibi, Jeddah Club President. He was on his holiday and managed to found Gurney Toastmasters Club meeting from the blogs....hehee, ain't i proud of the internet!!

We even have Toastmaster TK Cheah, Ipoh Syuen President who came all the way from Ipoh to visit us on Christmas. Thank you so so so so much for your visit!!

Last but not least, Gurney Toastmasters Club would like to wish everyone, a happy happy happy Merry Christmas and Wonderful New Year!!

Cheers~

In Mood For Raya

2007-11-13T02:20:00.000-08:00

Another theme meeting, "In Mood For Raya" to celebrate the month of Ramadhan, Hari Raya Aidilfitri. It was a celebration of Malays, who fast for a month and in the month of Ramadhan, it's the celebration of life and appreciation. Though Gurney Toastmasters Club was not made up of Malay, we celebrate the festive season with the most of our proud feelings as a pure Malaysian.

The best thing of being a Malaysian is you get to celebrate a lot of festives season but yet, you're not th main race celebrating it ; you can wear any types of traditional costumes, though they dont belong to your culture ; you can learn a lot from other cultures and yet you can still practice your love to your own believes and culture and be extremely proud of it!!

We had this meeting and even encourage everyone to dress up in Malay costumes, namely Baju Melayu or Batik for the men, Baju Kurung and even Baju Kebaya for the ladies.

Benedict clad in his father's Batik, very patriotic, presenting his speech on "What Is Art, What Is Not?"~~

Chris, being our newest members, got a pin from our mentor, SH Lim. Chris even presented his speech on "Me, Myself & I", the Ice-Breaker project, only one week after joining us!

Together We Merdeka!!

2007-11-13T01:43:00.000-08:00

The girls (left) and (below) the meeting attendances = Full House!!

The theme for the night was "Together We MERDEKA!!".

Choosing the theme was not an easy task, wanting everyone to come in their traditional costume indeed was a hard job. But it all paid off, when we saw all the members and even our guests came in their traditional costumes. I mean, it was so much fun to see the blend of colours and clothes and cultures!!

We prepared satay, a Malaysian delicacies of grill chicken with peanut sauce. We even had fried bihun and a lot more Malaysian food. You sure miss out when you choose to 'opps, i forgot to go to your meeting'!

Since Merdeka celebration fall on 31st August, we celebrate the Independent Day much earlier together, this was indeed a great gathering as everyone was sharing about their Merdeka experience. Some were even born before the Independent Day, so, sure there's so much to share and so much to learn from~

We had ....

Ying Ying presenting her Competent Communicator (CC) Proj #4 : Money For Nothing,

Hooi Koon presenting her CC Proj # 6 : Happy Life,

Benedict presenting his CC Proj # 7 : Soft Or Hard , and,

Joanne presenting her Advanced Communicator Bronze (Entertaining Speech) Proj # 3 : M Drivers.

Do enjoy the pictures, as we always say it, Speak More In Learning Environment!

Sam, our President, saying his piece of mind on Merdeka!

Benjamin Liaw, the Toastmaster Of The Evening, hosting the night well!!

Ai Li, clad in her pretty cheongsam, she's the grammarian for the night.

James, evaluating on Hooi Koon's "Happy Life".

Joanne, presenting her "Hollywood, Bollywood or HongKongwood?"

Humorous Speech & Speech Evaluation Contest 07/08

2007-08-30T13:25:00.000-07:00

We had our in-house Humorous Speech & Speech Evaluation Contest last Monday. The event was a joint programme with the MIA Toastmasters Club. Held on 27th August 2007, the event was indeed an eye-opener...let me tell you WHY :

1. Our humourous speech contest chair, is the quiet and sweet Ying Ying. Wow, she'd done an extremely impressive job, coordination and programme was carefully planned with the MIA Toastmasters Club's Li Hoong, the contest chair of Evaluation Contest.

2. The programme was smooth and was so clearly planned, resulting in a successful event, with everyone enjoying the contest!!

3. The trophies were so pretty...hehe..

4. We didn't know our Past President, Tan was that funny when after he won the Humorous speech contest. And yea, as claimed, he's stil single....thanks to himself, unable to decide to be or not to be an 'animal'... :)

5. How to make everyone enjoy if we do not have guest and friends to join us? well, the event was attended by guests from Farlim, IPG, YMCA and even our very own Area Governor, Yoon Peng Yew.

Last but not least, we want to thank all the members of Gurney Toastmasters Club and MIA Toastmasters Club as well as all the helpers from other clubs who help out during the contest.

Ying Ying, Contest Chair for Humorous Speech Contest.

Our Toastmaster Of The Evening, Tan Chia Lih, ACS CL, from Farlim TMC

Jessica presenting 1st prize trophy to Tan for winning the Humorous Speech Contest of Gurney Toastmasters Club.

Joanne, Winner of Speech Evaluation Contest.

President Sam, 1st runner up for Speech Evaluation Contest.

Eleanor, dua membership of both Gurney and MIA TMC, won 2nd in both contest.

James, 2nd runner up for Speech Evaluation contest.

Benjamin, 2nd runner up for Humorous Speech Contest.

Li Hoong, Chairlady for Evaluation Contest, presented trophy for Violet, participant for Speech Evaluation Contest.

Division N & Division S ~ Joint Installation Dinner 2007

2007-08-13T20:55:00.000-07:00

Date : 28th July 2007

Time : 7.00pm

Venue : Bayview Georgetown Penang

Theme : Blue & Silver

It was great!!

The Joint Installation Dinner was successfully held, finally!!

Organizing Committee of the dinner, which was consisted of members from Division N & Division S, has been gathering, meeting, discussing, arguing, head-scratching and heart pumping for the whole 3 months to fully prepare the dinner as the best ever arranged dinner.

Lead by our Nenek Joan Chan as the Organizing Chairlady, the committee worked hard for meetings over meetings for this event and it was so touching to see the event successfully ended on that very night.

It indeed a touching moment when Eddy and Lay Hoon (the emcees) said, ‘Thank You for coming and have a safe journey home’ that night. I personally don’t know how others felt, but it was a special feeling, after all that we’ve done, the bonding between the committee (which was once, unknown to each other) was so close and now, all of us has got ourselves a whole group of new friends, each.

BRAVO to the team!!

The organizing committee consists of :
Organizing Chairlady ~ Joan Chan, ACS CL (Nenek)
Co-Organizing Chairperson ~ Christopher Choong, CL

Division N Governor ~ Palaniappan Subramaniam, ACB CL
Division S Governor ~ Yoon Peng Yew, ACB CL

Andrew Low, CC ALB

Beh Ee Ling, TM

Cheah Ee Liang, CC

Clement Pang, DTM

Eddy Chew, ACB CL

Eleanor Ooi, TM

Eric Yeoh, CC

Heah Theng Chye, CC CL

Jessica Chan, ACG CL

Joanne Tan, CC CL

Johnson Tang, TM

Koay Kah Hin, CC CL

Lim Lay Hoon, DTM

Mah Siew Chin, ACB CL

Penny Ooi, ACB ALB

SH Lim, ACB CL

Sutharat Nai Charm, CC CL

Teh Li Lian, ACB CL

Yeap Ai Li, TM

President Sam Koay being installed as the President of Gurney Toastmasters Club.

Ai Li being installed as the Vice President Public Relations of Gurney Toastmasters Club.

Dylan and Clement being installed as the Vice President Membership.

Gurney Toastmasters Club with mentors from Farlim Toastmasters Club.

Gurney Toastmasters Club's eligible bachelors...

The 'Charlie's Angels' and the organizing chairlady, Joan Chan.

Joanne and Ai Li, crazy crazy....

President Sam and his 'i-eating-prawn-pose'...

That's Papa Gerald, the man who brought the greatness of Toastmasters to District 51.

Appreciation Dinner for Term 06/07

2007-07-10T00:14:00.000-07:00

With the EXCO members of Gurney Toastmasters Club stepping down from their Board Of Directors seat serving for six months since the club was chartered in January, new term members were more than willing to serve the club, taking up responsibilities of their newly elected seats.

Even so, we need to appreciate all the hard work done by the past term EXCO members. We had a good Appreciation Dinner with a gathering of 15members, even guest from other club.

The dinner was held on 7th July 2007, a date where many choose to get married to mark the auspicious day, Gurney Toastmasters Club decided to make a wonderful gathering of appreciation.

Thanks to all and hope everyone enjoyed the dinner, what more, RM 30.40 is worth more than anything else other than 6scoops of Haagen Dazs..hehehehe...

Let's recap :

SH Lim (Club Mentor) : 7scoops of ice cream with a lot of advicesss throughout the dinner..

"No...i didn't eat that much, (while whispering) don't tell my wife bout this, thank you"

James Leong (aka Uncle James) : many rounds of ice cream...i lost count how many scoop he had~

"Where got, where got, i only had some chocolate chips ice cream only...oppsss!"

Violet (always a charming lady) : i dont seems to recall her having any ice cream but she must've enjoyed the crab soup steamboat though..

"Oh, i did had a few scoop, my dear..you just didn't get to catch me while i eat them"

Tan Chong Teck (Presiden 06/07) : "I don't care, I don't care...as long as i got my ice cream, nice and steamy..."

Benedict (our young brother) : "hehe..i got u..i need u..i really really want u...my Haegen Dass.."

Sam (not eligible not bachelor of Gurney TMC aka President 07/08) : "haha...don't care, after all these, i can crash the gim some other time..today eat, tomorrow exercise.."

"Let me teach you how to pack some Haagen Dazs..First, get a plastic bag, then, put some ice cream into your mouth, then, slowly 'ueekkk' them out into the bag and run towards the door!!!!"

seriously, i don't even know he's such humurous, or, disgusting...hehehehe...anyhow, we all know he's a good guy :)

Dylan (single & available bachelor of Gurney TMC) : haha..got u with that naughty look~~ :P

"Yo~Gals, call me...Guys, don't bug me"

Ai Li (single & available) : "Don't post this photo, i can't let people see me in this (tam chiak) condition..."

Ying Ying (sweet girl of Gurney TMC) : hhmmm....i think i saw her when to the ice cream stall a few times, wonder how many she had..

"Don't come near me, or you'll get diabetic"

Hooi Koon (the accountant who hates account) : "I'm the new Charlie's Angel with Ying Ying and Ai Li. "

Benjamin (new member) : "This is great, check out my Darlie Smile...hehe...shiny white even with the chicken feet...yummy..."

Kent aka Ho (new member) : "mmm...my Haagen Dazs.. strawberry flavour + coffee flavour = yum yum!! "

Eleanor (guest from MIA Toastmasters Club, soon, dual-membership of Gurney Toastmasters Club as well!!) :

"Don't ask me how much i had, it's just the effect of the gold earings..not my fault, i just can't control it...aaaaa...the earing is alive!!!"

Joanne Tan (haha, yea, i'm the author) :

"I know, i know, i look like i didn't eat anything for the past one month, but hey, this pic is only for entertainment ok....i'm on diet~" :P

Introducing.....

The Crazy Charlie's Angels with the Haagen Dazs advertisement.

(ain't they look cute? err..i mean, the middle one)

~THE GOOD GIRLS GOOD BOYS POSE 'n' THE NAUGHTY BOYS NAUGHTY GIRLS POSE~

Last Meeting for the 2006/2007 team

2007-06-28T21:46:00.000-07:00

In Toastmasters Club, the term for the EXCO members of the club will be from July ~ June and since Gurney Toastmasters Club was chartered in January, it was only about 6 months for the 1st EXCO team to serve.

It was on 27th June that our last meeting was held and to celebrate the great teamwork, we had a little pot luck and invited a lot of guests to the last meeting. It was definitely a great gathering and we have a Full-House that night!

Members and guests paid full attention to the speeches...

Pay attention..pay attention..

Chirstopher Choong, evaluating on Table Topic speeches.

(Table Topics session is a session where guests and members will be invited to do a 2-minutes speech, impromptu and un-prepared. This will help to enhance creativity of the speakers and of course, add in additional spice of confidence boost!)

Melen, evaluating on Joanne's speech on "I'm Real, Are You?".

Jessica, evaluating on Benjamin's speech on "IntraLasik".

Chia Lih, evaluating on Sam's speech on "The Power of Believing".

Joan Chan, doing General Evaluation.

(In Toastmasters meeting, a General Evaluator will be the person to evaluate on the whole progress of the meeting.)

Ai Li doing the Ah Counter.

(In a Toastmasters meeting, a person will be in charge to count the num. of 'ah' , 'um' or others connection words to your speech)

Sam with the wine..

Congrats to Sam for completing his 10 Projects in Competent Communicator manual!!!

Congratulations to Our 2006/2007 President, CT Tan, for completing his Communication Leadership Manual!!

Congratulations to Joanne Tan, for completing her 10 Projects in Competent Communicator and Communication Leadership Manual!!!

Cheers!!

All For One, One For All!!!

That's 2006/07 President Tan (Right) and 2007/08 President Sam Koay(Left).

Joint Installation Dinner meeting no.1

2007-06-27T11:54:00.000-07:00

Being a part of District 51's Division N and Division S, Gurney Toastmasters Club is in the circle of Division N & S Joint Installation Dinner this coming 28th of July 2007.

Members of Gurney Toastmasters Club were invited to attend the meeting which was held last 15th and were given task in souvenirs and PA system control. Ai Li, Joanne and Sam Koay volunteered to help out in the committee.

The meeting was held at Mizu Spa and the committee members enjoyed the smoothly organized gathering cum meeting on dat day. The meeting then continue with Birthday celebration AG Pala and AG Peng Yew, with non other than a good chocolate mint cake..yumyum..thanks to 'nenek' Joan Ang, the Organizing Chairlady of the Joint Installation Dinner.

By the way, the Joint Installation Dinner will be held on 28th July 2007 in Bayview Georgetown Hotel at 7.00pm sharp. Theme of the dinner will be 'Blue & Silver'. Ticket will be at RM50 per pax. Interested to attend? Just drop me a line here....

the cake..

the birthday boys...

happie bird day to u..happie bird day to u...

aiyo..let the 'nenek' do the job..she's more experience~

come come..open your mouth...

2 Area Governors : Jessica & Pala (the birthday boy)

Eddy with his 'licking adventure'...

Overall, it was a great meeting..what more, with eddy's 'licking adventure', everything was laughter..

JB Convention 2007

2007-05-16T01:05:00.000-07:00

The District 51, 14th Convention or better known as JB Convention was held on 27-29th April 2007 in Hyatt Regency Hotel, Johor Bahru.

The event was participated by Toastmaster from all over Malaysia as well as some Toastmaster from all over the world. It was an annual event where there were competition held during the convention. There was International Speech Contest as well as Table Topic Speech Contest.

Besides, delegates even get a chance to meet up with other members of Toastmaster International, exchanging ideas and fellowship to learn more about each club is so educational and exciting!

Programmes throughout the convention includes seminar and talks on how to improve speaking skills as well as building a better speech in public speaking. Generally, it was not about the food of the 5-star rated hotel, neither was it about the nice swimming pool nor the well-equipped gim, it was all about the 'experience' in the convention. Never will it be replaced! Well Done!!

http://www.jb2007.com/jbtc.php

Next year, the convention will be held in Gurney Hotel, Penang.. So, watch out for a more exciting and of course interesting Toastmaster Convention in 2008!

Only 3 of Gurney Toastmaster Club attended the event, but it was definitely a great fun that others missed!! We had great experience there, and here, is our memories~~

From left : SH Lim (Club Mentor), Ai Li (Gurney), Joanne (Treasurer), Sue Chan (District S Governor) and seated, Sam (Vice President Membership)

For those of u who are interested to join us, TOASTMASTER CLUB, feel free to drop by GURNEY TOASTMASTER. Our meetings will be held on every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month in Gurney Hotel's function room at Level 2.

Call me or msg me if you are interested..i'll be more than please to show you the way and reserve a seat for u..And for those of you who are interested to knw more about Toastmaster International, feel free to log in their website at http://www.toastmasters.org/

A Baby Is Born

2007-05-15T03:18:00.000-07:00

Gurney Toastmaster Club is a new baby to Toastmaster International. Born on 1st January 2007, the club is currently up and coming to various type of activities as well as marking our name in the list of Toastmaster Clubs in Penang.

The mission of a Toastmasters club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop and practice communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth.

We are proud to present you, the EXCO members of the club..
President : Toastmaster Tan Chong Teck
Vice President Education : Toastmaster Allison Siew
Vice President Membership : Toastmaster Sam Koay
Vice President Public Relation : Toastmaster Cindy Yeoh
Secretary : Toastmaster Dylan Yeoh
Treasurer : Toastmaster Joanne Tan
Sargeant At Arm : Toastmaster Henry Mah